TY - GEN
T1 - Quality of Life Measurements in Spinal Cord Injury Patients
AU - Parimbelli, Enea
AU - Fizzotti, Gabriella
AU - Pistarini, Caterina
AU - Rognoni, Carla
AU - Quaglini, Silvana
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We recently developed UceWeb, an application for direct elicitation of utility coefficients (UCs), i.e. a measure of health states quality perceived by patients. UceWeb was used to interview a sample of patients affected by spinal cord injury (SCI). A standard questionnaire for measuring quality of life (QoL) and another one for the system evaluation were also administered to the same patients. The aims of this work are to (i) evaluate UceWeb usability; (ii) investigate relationships among QoL values elicited with different methods, (iii) create a reference set of UCs for the health states experienced by SCI patients. We show preliminary results obtained with the first 20 patients. Despite great variability found among QoL values elicited with the different methods, interesting correlations with patients' condition and profile have been found.
AB - We recently developed UceWeb, an application for direct elicitation of utility coefficients (UCs), i.e. a measure of health states quality perceived by patients. UceWeb was used to interview a sample of patients affected by spinal cord injury (SCI). A standard questionnaire for measuring quality of life (QoL) and another one for the system evaluation were also administered to the same patients. The aims of this work are to (i) evaluate UceWeb usability; (ii) investigate relationships among QoL values elicited with different methods, (iii) create a reference set of UCs for the health states experienced by SCI patients. We show preliminary results obtained with the first 20 patients. Despite great variability found among QoL values elicited with the different methods, interesting correlations with patients' condition and profile have been found.
KW - Quality of life
KW - Spinal Cord Injuries
KW - Utility Theory
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-998
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-998
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84952057806
SN - 9781614995630
VL - 216
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 998
BT - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, MEDINFO 2015
Y2 - 19 August 2015 through 23 August 2015
ER -